The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 95
One of his friends had risen at the same time, but Noureddin was before him, and finding the intruder to be the steward, he went out and closed the door.
Who acts: One, Noureddin, vizir, intruder · What happens: rise, be, find, go out, close · To what, where: intruder, steward, door
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, Noureddin, vizir, intruder), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2354): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 risen | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 friends | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 risen | aux |
| 6 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 risen | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 him | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 him | cc |
| 13 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 him | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 him | cop |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 risen | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 19 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 went | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 intruder | det |
| 21 | intruder | intruder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finding | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 steward | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 steward | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 steward | det |
| 25 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finding | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 risen | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 went | compound:prt |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 closed | cc |
| 31 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 went | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 door | det |
| 33 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 closed | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 risen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past · perfect | One of vizir's friends | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Noureddin | before vizir | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | gerund | vizir not said here | the intruder | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intruder=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the intruder not said here | the steward | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go out | past | vizir | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | close | past | vizir not said here | the door | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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